Microbial survey of a full-scale, biologically active filter for treatment of drinking water
Colin P White1, Ronald W Debry, Darren A Lytle
1University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. white.colin@epa.gov
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|July 4, 2012
Abstract:
The microbial community of a full-scale, biologically active drinking water filter was surveyed using molecular techniques. Nitrosomonas, Nitrospira, Sphingomonadales, and Rhizobiales dominated the clone libraries. The results elucidate the microbial ecology of biological filters and demonstrate that biological treatment of drinking water should be considered a viable alternative to physicochemical methods.


